Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature
The Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.
Winners and nominees[]
2000s[]
| Year | Winner | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Dark Days | Palm Pictures | Marc Singer |
| The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Lionsgate Films | Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | |
| Long Night's Journey into Day | Seventh Art Releasing | Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid | |
| Paragraph 175 | New Yorker Films | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | |
| Sound and Fury | Artistic License Films | Josh Aronson | |
| 2001 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | Sony Pictures Classics | Stacy Peralta |
| Go Tigers! | IFC Films | Kenneth A. Carlson | |
| LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton | Maysles Films Inc. | Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke and Albert Maysles | |
| Promises | Cowboy Pictures | Carlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg, and Justine Shapiro | |
| Scratch | Palm Pictures | Doug Pray | |
| 2002 | Bowling for Columbine | United Artists | Michael Moore |
| The Cockettes | Strand Releasing | Bill Weber and David Weissman | |
| Devil's Playground | Cinemax | Lucy Walker | |
| How to Draw a Bunny | Artisan Entertainment | John W. Walter | |
| Stevie | Kartemquin Films | Steve James | |
| 2003 | The Fog of War | Sony Pictures Classics | Errol Morris |
| Mayor of the Sunset Strip | First Look Studios | George Hickenlooper | |
| My Architect | New Yorker Films | Nathaniel Kahn | |
| OT: Our Town | Film Movement | Scott Hamilton Kennedy | |
| Power Trip | Films Transit International | Paul Devlin | |
| 2004 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | IFC Films | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| Bright Leaves | First Run Features | Ross McElwee | |
| Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | Shola Lynch | |
| Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust | First Run Features | Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky | |
| Tarnation | Wellspring Media | Jonathan Caouette | |
| 2005 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Magnolia Pictures | Alex Gibney |
| Grizzly Man | Lionsgate Films | Werner Herzog | |
| La Sierra | Icarus Films | Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez | |
| Romántico | Kino International | Mark Becker | |
| Sir! No Sir! | Balcony Releasing | David Zeiger | |
| 2006 | The Road to Guantánamo | Roadside Attractions | Michael Winterbottom |
| A Lion in the House | PBS Distribution | Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert | |
| My Country, My Country | Zeitgeist Films | Laura Poitras | |
| The Trials of Darryl Hunt | THINKFilm | Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg | |
| You're Gonna Miss Me | Palm Pictures | Keven McAlester | |
| 2007 | Crazy Love | Magnolia Pictures | Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens |
| Lake of Fire | THINKFilm | Tony Kaye | |
| Manufactured Landscapes | Zeitgeist Films | Jennifer Baichwal | |
| The Monastery | Koch-Lorber Films | Pernille Rose Grønkjær | |
| The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair | Truly Indie | Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein | |
| 2008 | Man on Wire[1] | Magnolia Pictures | James Marsh |
| The Betrayal | The Cinema Guild | Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath | |
| Encounters at the End of the World | THINKFilm | Werner Herzog | |
| The Order of Myths | The Cinema Guild | Margaret Brown | |
| Up the Yangtze | Zeitgeist Films | Yung Chang | |
| 2009 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil[2] | Abramorama | Sacha Gervasi |
| Food, Inc. | Magnolia Pictures | Robert Kenner | |
| More than a Game | Lionsgate | Kristopher Belman | |
| October Country | Topic Studios | Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher | |
| Which Way Home | HBO Films | Rebecca Cammisa |
2010s[]
| Year | Winner | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Exit Through the Gift Shop[3] | Producers Distribution Agency | Banksy |
| Marwencol | The Cinema Guild | Jeff Malmberg | |
| Restrepo | National Geographic Entertainment | Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger | |
| Sweetgrass | The Cinema Guild | Lucien Castaing-Taylor | |
| Thunder Soul | Roadside Attractions | Mark Landsman | |
| 2011 | The Interrupters[4] | The Cinema Guild | Steve James |
| An African Election | The Cinema Guild | Jarreth J. Merz and Kevin Merz | |
| Bill Cunningham New York | Zeitgeist Films | Richard Press | |
| The Redemption of General Butt Naked | part2 pictures | Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss | |
| We Were Here | The Film Collaborative | David Weissman | |
| 2012 | The Invisible War[5] | Cinedigm | Kirby Dick |
| The Central Park Five | Sundance Selects | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon | |
| How to Survive a Plague | Sundance Selects | David France | |
| Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present | Music Box Films | Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre | |
| The Waiting Room | International Film Circuit | Peter Nicks | |
| 2013 | 20 Feet from Stardom[6] | RADiUS-TWC | Morgan Neville |
| The Act of Killing | Drafthouse Films | Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn | |
| After Tiller | Ro*co | Martha Shane and Lana Wilson | |
| Gideon's Army | HBO Documentary Films | Dawn Porter | |
| The Square | GathrFilms/Participant Media | Jehane Noujaim | |
| 2014 | Citizenfour[7] | RADiUS-TWC | Laura Poitras |
| 20,000 Days on Earth | Drafthouse Films | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | |
| The Salt of the Earth | Le Pacte | Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | |
| Stray Dog | Still Rolling Productions | Debra Granik | |
| Virunga | Netflix | Orlando von Einsiedel | |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence[8] | Drafthouse Films | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| (T)error | PBS Distribution | Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe | |
| Best of Enemies | Magnolia Pictures/Participant Media | Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville | |
| Heart of a Dog | Abramorama | Laurie Anderson | |
| Meru | Music Box Films | Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | |
| The Russian Woodpecker | FilmBuff | Chad Garcia | |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America[9] | ESPN Films | Ezra Edelman |
| 13th | Netflix | Ava DuVernay | |
| Cameraperson | Janus Films | Kirsten Johnson | |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Magnolia Pictures/Amazon Studios | Raoul Peck | |
| Sonita | Women Make Movies | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | |
| Under the Sun | Deckert Distribution/Icarus Films | Vitaly Mansky | |
| 2017 | Faces Places[10] | Le Pacte | Agnès Varda and JR |
| The Departure | Pandora | Lana Wilson | |
| Last Men in Aleppo | Grasshopper Film | Feras Fayyad | |
| Motherland | FilmRise | Ramona Diaz | |
| Quest | First Run Features | Jonathan Olshefski | |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Focus Features | Morgan Neville |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | The Cinema Guild | RaMell Ross | |
| Minding the Gap | Hulu/Magnolia Pictures | Bing Liu | |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Kino Lorber | Talal Derki | |
| On Her Shoulders | RYOT | Alexandria Bombach | |
| Shirkers | Netflix | Sandi Tan | |
| 2019 | American Factory | Netflix | Jeff Reichert and Julie Parker Benello |
| Apollo 11 | Neon | Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Petersen and Evan Krauss | |
| For Sama | PBS Distribution | Waad Al-Kateab | |
| Honeyland | Neon | Atanas Georgiev | |
| Island of the Hungry Ghosts | Autlook Filmsales | Alexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay, Alex Kelly, Gizem Acarla and Gabrielle Brady |
2020s[]
| Year | Winner | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Crip Camp | Netflix | Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht |
| Collective | Voodoo Films | Alexander Nanau | |
| Dick Johnson Is Dead | Netflix | Kirsten Johnson | |
| The Mole Agent | Gravitas Ventures | Maite Alberdi | |
| Time | Amazon Studios | Garrett Bradley |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Urban Cinefile INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS 2009-WINNERS
- ^ 'Anvil', '45365' Take Nonfiction at Spirit Awards|International Documentary Association
- ^ Independent Spirit winners and nominees 2011-Los Angeles Times
- ^ Film Independent Spirit Awards: Complete List of Winners|IndieWire
- ^ The Invisible War-Awards-IMDB
- ^ 2014 Independent Spirit Awards: 12 Years a Slave Takes Home Best Feature, Plus More Big Winners!|E! News
- ^ Spirit Awards 2015: Winners Complete List|Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Film Independent Spirit Awards 2016: Complete Winners List-US Magazine
- ^ 'O.J.: Made In America' Wins Independent Spirit Award For Best Documentary Feature|IndieWire
- ^ Independent Spirit Awards 2018 Winners: The Complete List|E! News
Categories:
- Independent Spirit Awards
- American documentary film awards
- Awards established in 2000